Tuesday, May 30, 2017

May 29, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not Memorial Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or
Not For May 29, 2017 On this Memorial
Day, great speech by Trump at Arlington honoring those who have fallen as Pence
led a bike ride fund raiser for vets suffering from PTDS; California’s f*bombing
junior Senator has finally tweeted something positive about veterans while
blasting Trump’s defense budget which restores years of cutting under Obama’s
misguided policies; Texas governor has signed into law SB4 which bans Santuary
Cities and levies jail time for officials and law enforcement who do not
cooperate with ICE (ironic you have to pass a law requiring law enforcement to
enforce the law); Tiger is not out of the Woods after being arrested for a
DUI at 3:00 a.m. today; we all know that
police work is dangerous but the story out of Pennsylvania adds a new twist as
an officer searching a DUI’s suspect car was exposed to a white powdery
substance and almost passed out; sad news out of the VA where every dollar
needs to count, the number of criminal investigations involving theft of
opioids and other drugs by VA employees has risen to 108; in the real world away from
the delusion of PC academia in the University of Chicago, almost a stuck
record or a remake of Groundhog Day,
Chicago style, the carnage in Chicago continued unabated in May with
total shootings in 2017 through May 28 increasing to 1336 and the death toll
increasing to 228, a major tragedy that the powers to be in Chicago seem to
completely ignore.

As always,
I hope you enjoy today’s holidays and observances, a music link to the Ted
Weems, factoids of interest for this day in history, hoping your paintings are
all idiochromatic, a relevant quote from Pete Hegseth, secure in the knowledge
that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Fathers’ Day,
weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you
with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event
and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.

1. International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers—celebrated
since 2002 to honor the sacrifice of those over the years who have worn the
blue helmet trying to act as a buffer between warring sides.

2. World
Digestive Health Day—another UN observance; this one designed to promote sanitary
food habits and awareness of digestive diseases.

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “idiochromatic”
which means to possess a distinctive color pattern or design.

5. Camelot
RIP—celebrating the birth on this day in 1917 of John Kennedy who had
he not been assassinated in Dallas in 1963 would have been 100 today leaving us
to wonder how different the world might have been had his life not been cut
short.

On this day
in:

a. 1852 the Swedish
Nightingale, Jenny Lind departed from New York City after a two year singing
tour of the United States.

b. 1914 the RMS Empress of Ireland after colliding
with another ship in the fog in the Gulf of St. Lawrence sank with the loss of
1,012 (less than 20 percent of the passengers in 2nd and 3rd
class survived as opposed to 70 percent in 1st class and 59 percent
of the crew).

c. 1932 veterans of WWI
began assembling to march on Washington, D.C. to demand payment of bonuses
promised to them for their service but deferred to 1945.

d. 1953 Sir Edmund
Hillary and his Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first persons to reach the
summit of Mount Everest.

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